You can go to any neighborhood with 0 white transplants, and it still won't resemble the pre-internet/cell phone world at all

That's more like West Harlem though. East Harlem is still rough while also skyrocketing in price

And it's still one of the more interesting neighborhoods in NYC

Also: helicopter parents, the internet, video games, etc.

Yes. There's now a shop there called "Physical Graffitea"

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.727365,-73.9847194,3a,75y,210.57h,112.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTr1EDUjDvRvkvIf6o9GKQA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

That's kind of a nationwide thing among all cultures now. Life has become more sterile

Maybe it can be turned into a giant escape room

It's not even close to a secret

"Next"

The houses go for over a million dollars now, that ship has sailed. But the price increase isn't necessarily from stereotypical gentrifier types, I'm sure a lot of it is from immigrants with money too.

4 Boy 99 Cent pizza on W31st st is better in my opinion, and still 1 dollar to my knowledge

What? 3.50 is a normal price for a cheese slice now

I actually like that MORE than 2 Bros. It's not as doughy tasting and tastes closer to normal pizza

Yeah and in the process they'll get rid of historic buildings and old school neighborhood bars. It would be a net negative to the already soulless neighborhood.

The first part of the article sounds like it was written by a snobby rich person.

God forbid Penn Station have semi-affordable places for regular people like Dunkin Donuts!

In a post Covid era with lots of people still working from home, I don't see why building more offices is a good idea

Correct. There actually seems to be a lack of regular bar/pubs in most of the Bronx. That could change, but as of now it's nothing like even Bed Stuy in terms of nightlife.

Another thing is that most of the South Bronx was destroyed during the 1970s arson wave, and the buildings were replaced in the 80s and 90s with cheap looking Fedders houses. So it doesn't have that homey feel that Bed Stuy, Bushwick, Harlem, Washington Heights, etc. have. That's also why, in my opinion, Brownsville is of little interest to gentrifiers.

Yeah for the white gentry crowd, the Bronx doesn't really offer anything that Brooklyn doesn't. It's no longer cheap.

That could change eventually, but right now I don't think it will gentrify the way Bed Stuy and Bushwick have.

And I agree with you that a lot of white people are oblivious to what race relations are actually like . It's like when boomers act like their neighborhood growing up was like Sesame Street, but fail to mention that this was because of white flight happening at an unthinkable pace.

Well there's always the transracial interests like sports and TV shows

Isn't that what Mitchell Lama is?

I think the days of NYCHA towers being built are long gone. And the mixed income housing seems like a scam.

Yeah, I have asked a lot of black and Hispanic New Yorkers about this. They said they either knew literally zero white people growing up or maybe 1-2 token white kids.

Huge swaths of the city are like this, you can walk for probably miles in Eastern Brooklyn or The Bronx withour seeing a single white family.

I've been all over the South Bronx and West Bronx and have seen few white people. I know there are plenty in Riverdale and Country Club, but how many black people live there?

I can vouch for this. In high school, the nerdy kids (the type to do Naruto runs) had very diverse friend groups and still do.

While the "normies" mostly stuck to their own racial group.

Literally the only bad thing is the increased rents (and the consequences of that)

But landlords are jacking up rents even in places like Fordham Heights (for instance) where there is zero gentrification, so you may as well get some benefit out of it.

Rich white people are the ones who want development. Who do you think is moving into those glass monstrosities?